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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Mrs. Dalloway (original 1925; edition 1990)

by Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway is back for a fresh release from Duke Classics. One thread follows Clarissa Dalloway as she spends a day planning to host a party in post-WWI England. Another follows the path of Septimus Smith, a struggling war veteran. Reflections on wartime, love, and the past are woven together before intersecting at the story's climax.

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Title:Mrs. Dalloway
Authors:Virginia Woolf
Info:Harvest Books (1990), Paperback, 216 pages
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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)

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 Author Theme Reads: Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway5 unread / 5Sarasamsara, February 2009

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I really don't think I understood it and I am not sure I care enough to try again. There were moments I was riveted but overall the cerebral moments just lost me. ( )
  Blanket_Dragon | Jan 23, 2024 |
I think I’ll get more out of it with a re-read rather than the first go. ( )
  the.lesbian.library | Jan 15, 2024 |
¡Finally read my first Virginia Woolf book! Now I am quite afraid of her! The prose is divine, so it certainly was a pleasure to read, despite having that clear stream of consciousness style. However, I could not follow the story at all! There are not any chapters or even paragraph breaks. When the point of view changes, it goes largely unnoticed (¿Who is Septimus?). Compound that ambiguity with the loosely structured story, abrupt ending, and gibberish is all that is left. This sums up to a pleasant bit of nonsense, unrecommendable.
If this really is Woolf's most famous work, I will not be visiting her again... ( )
  MXMLLN | Jan 12, 2024 |
The first time I read this book I just didn't get it. I was in high school and I thought it was profoundly boring. Many years later I read The Hours by Michael Cunningham, which inspired me to re-read Mrs. Dalloway. That second reading was totally different. I was fascinated by it, especially Clarissa's relationship with Sally. ( )
  LibrarianDest | Jan 3, 2024 |
Truly remarkable ( )
  RatGrrrl | Dec 20, 2023 |
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"Mrs. Dalloway" é um romance escrito por Virginia Woolf e publicado em 1925. A história se passa em Londres, em um único dia de junho, e acompanha a personagem Clarissa Dalloway, uma mulher de classe alta que se prepara para uma festa que dará à noite. A narrativa alterna entre os pensamentos e experiências de Clarissa e os de outros personagens ligados a ela.

Enquanto Clarissa passa o dia se preparando para a festa, ela reflete sobre seu passado, suas escolhas e seus relacionamentos. O romance se aprofunda em suas memórias, capturando o fluxo de consciência dos personagens e revelando o funcionamento interno de suas mentes. Os pensamentos de Clarissa são justapostos aos de Septimus Warren Smith, um veterano da Primeira Guerra Mundial em estado de choque, que está lutando contra sua própria saúde mental.

O romance explora temas como tempo, memória, classe social e o impacto da guerra sobre os indivíduos. Por meio do estilo narrativo inovador de Woolf, os leitores têm uma visão da vida interior e das emoções dos personagens. O foco central em um único dia permite uma exploração profunda dos pensamentos e sentimentos dos personagens, destacando as intrincadas conexões entre os indivíduos em uma sociedade que passa por mudanças sociais e culturais significativas.

"Mrs. Dalloway" é celebrado por suas técnicas narrativas modernistas, incluindo o uso de fluxo de consciência, monólogo interior e uma estrutura não linear. O romance é considerado uma obra de referência na exploração literária da psique humana e das complexidades das relações sociais. O estilo de prosa de Woolf e sua capacidade de captar as nuances da vida cotidiana contribuem para a importância duradoura de "Mrs. Dalloway" no cânone da literatura modernista.
 

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Woolf, Virginiaprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Bell, VanessaCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Bening, AnnetteNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Brunt, NiniTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Cunningham, ValentineIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Duffy, Carol AnnIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Flosnik, AnneNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Hämäläinen, KyllikkiTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Herlitschka, MarlysTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Howard, MaureenForewordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Mathias, RobertCover designersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
McNichol, StellaEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Novi, NathalieIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Pawlowski, Merry M.Introductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Risvik, KariTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Scalero, AlessandraTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Showalter, ElaineIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Stevenson, JulietNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Stewart, LizzyIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Uyar, TomrisTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed

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Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

For Lucy had her work cut out for her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer's men were coming. And then, thought Clarissa Dalloway, what a morning—fresh as if issued to children on a beach.
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Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway is back for a fresh release from Duke Classics. One thread follows Clarissa Dalloway as she spends a day planning to host a party in post-WWI England. Another follows the path of Septimus Smith, a struggling war veteran. Reflections on wartime, love, and the past are woven together before intersecting at the story's climax.

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s Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning, a sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane turns and loops, leaving off one letter, picking up another. Like the airplane's swooping path, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway follows Clarissa and those whose lives brush hers--from Peter Walsh, whom she spurned years ago, to her daughter Elizabeth, the girl's angry teacher, Doris Kilman, and war-shocked Septimus Warren Smith, who is sinking into madness.

As Mrs. Dalloway prepares for the party she is giving that evening, a series of events intrudes on her composure. Her husband is invited, without her, to lunch with Lady Bruton (who, Clarissa notes anxiously, gives the most amusing luncheons). Meanwhile, Peter Walsh appears, recently from India, to criticize and confide in her. His sudden arrival evokes memories of a distant past, the choices she made then, and her wistful friendship with Sally Seton.
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